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Pragtical

The practical and pragmatic code editor

Lightweight

~50 MB of RAM, ~10 MB of disk space. Pragtical runs on many devices without performance issues.

Powerful

Syntax highlighting, multiple cursors, command palette and many more. LSP and other features are available as plugins.

Hyperextensible

Pragtical allows you to extend the editor via Lua and its C API. Documentation is available for many parts of the editor.

Cross-platform

Built on SDL, C and Lua, Pragtical runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. Porting to other systems is trivial.

Easy to Use

Easily change your editor settings, color theme, key bindings and installed plugins configuration using the graphical settings manager.

Free & Open Source

Pragtical is licensed under the MIT license. No telemetry or data collection.

Recent Blog Posts

If other code editor projects are making releases for every bug fix been done why can't we do the same? So that is what we are doing and in the proce…

This is the first release that makes use of new GitHub Copilot integration to work on the code for you! The automated code change done by the new Git…

A long overdue release given the important fixes, while minimal, the assortment of bug fixes do make a difference. Also, included are some enhancemen…

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